But, on the plus side, we're teaching!!!! YAY!
Misty. She's doing amazing. We gave her the challenge to read Alma 5, and she's gone above and beyond! She's written down every question and answered it as to how it pertains to her in her life. It's amazing. She's making small changes in her life! This seems small- but she's come to church every week so far this month and she even wore make up to church this last Sunday! Her self-esteem is raising!
Voda. We had a lesson with her on Wednesday and it went really well. :) Voda is totally progressing! We were a little concerned that she didn't have a firm testimony of The Book of Mormon and that Joseph Smith was a prophet. After much prayer, we decided to review The Restoration for a 3rd time before moving forward. We've tried visual lessons, scriptural lessons, etc. and so this time we decided to just put in The Restoration DVD- and it was the powerful lesson! The spirit was so strong. After the movie, we were all quiet and Voda finally said, "Wow... That gave me goosebumps..." She shared her testimony with us that she knows that this gospel is true and that it will (and is!) bless her family!
Billy & Jody. As we've been meeting with them, we've only been able to cover one little point at a time. In our last lesson with them, we talked about Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost. And this week we reviewed what we talked about last time and also talked about baptism. Those boys want to be baptized sooo bad. Hopefully we'll be able to help them understand (and retain) the things that are taught.
Sheila. We found Sheila while contacting a referral. She was outside doing yard work and we just decided to chat with her for a little bit. Anyway, we had given her a Book of Mormon during our initial visit and she invited us to come back. Her and her family are looking for a church to start attending- so we invited her to ours. But literally the night before she was going to come to church, she got a phone call about how her mom had just had a heart attack! Whoa. So she's really going through a rough time right now. We offered to pray with her, and after we prayed, she thanked us. She hadn't prayed in years. We have an appointment with her later this week.
Kendra. She's been attending church with her 2 little kids every week for over 2 months. OVER 2 MONTHS! She's good friends with the Bishop's wife- but they haven't wanted to "push her" so it's taken them forever to invite her to take the lessons. But it FINALLY happened. My goodness. So we went and had dinner with the Bishop's family and Kendra, and had a lesson afterwards. It went really well. She asked a lot about prophets and the priesthood. She's kind of hard to teach because it seems like she has a lot of walls put up. Hopefully we can begin to break some of those down so that we can know what she's thinking and feeling. We talked to her a lot about praying and reading the scriptures to find answers to her questions- but she didn't seem to like that very much. She mentioned how she'll "study up" on everything we talked about by reading the things that her grandma sends her via email... Yeah. I'm not sure how legitimate of a source that is.... It's a little worrisome.
Shantel. We found her on our potential investigator sheet in our area book. We went and contacted her and she just said, "The missionaries used to come by every Wednesday morning- and then they just stopped! You should come back!" OKAY, WE WILL! But she also visits with Jehovah's Witnesses on Thursdays and her daughter is getting baptized into a Christian church... so she's all over the board when it comes to religion. We'll see how it goes there.
Vern & Ellen. A couple from the ward invited them over for a family home evening! It was awesome! They invited us as well and we taught a lesson on "CPR" (church, prayer, reading the scriptures). And we also played chicken foot (a fun dominoes game). It was great to see them get friend-shipped by some people in the ward!!
George. We weren't able to meet with George because he had the flu! :( Sad day.
Kassie. She's had a ton of stuff going on the last year, so she's always busy when we go over. We were able to visit with a couple of her kids- but Kassie was busy running around the house. So the kids read us a Clifford book and then we left.
The work here in La Grande is really taking off! And I think I'm starting to get the hang of this missionary thing. ;) Sister Broadhead and I are starting off another transfer today- so wish us luck for the next 6 weeks!
Sister Gubler
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